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Georgia fatal crashes in 1984

FARS records 1,410 deaths in 1,260 fatal crashes in Georgia in 1984.

In 1983 it records 1,296 deaths in 1,157 fatal crashes.

This site gives no rate for the years before 2000.

Deaths in Georgia rose by 8.8% from 1983 to 1984. In the United States they rose by 3.9%.

In 1984, a driver was recorded as drinking in 41.9% of fatal crashes in Georgia and 41.0% in the United States.

To qualify as a FARS case, the crash had to involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and must have resulted in the death of a motorist or a non-motorist within 30 days of the crash.

The set of first files, known as the Annual Report File (ARF), is released following the crash year. The ARF is replaced about a year later with a final file, which contains additional cases or updates to cases that had become available after the ARF was released.

NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on .

This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Release dates

1984 beside 1983

Table 1.Georgia in 1984, in 1983 and the United States in 1984
FigureGeorgia, 1984Georgia, 1983United States, 1984
Deaths1,4101,29644,257
Fatal crashes1,2601,15739,631
Deaths for each 100,000 residentsn/an/an/a
Fatal crashes with a driver recorded as drinking52847216,244

Note: this site has no rate for the years before 2000.

Note: FARS records a driver as drinking when police reported alcohol involvement or a test of the driver was positive for alcohol. It is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure. NHTSA's definitions

For the years before 2015 the count is from the FARS element DRUNK_DR. It counts a blood alcohol concentration of .01 g/dL or more. From 2015 the count is from DR_DRINK and counts .001 g/dL or more.

Counties in 1984

Table 2.Georgia: counties with a fatal crash in 1984, in name order
CountyDeathsFatal crashes
Appling County65
Atkinson County1 or 21 or 2
Bacon County1 or 21 or 2
Baker County43
Baldwin County86
Banks County55
Barrow County66
Bartow County2320
Ben Hill County1 or 21 or 2
Berrien County55
Bibb County2121
Bleckley County64
Brantley County1 or 21 or 2
Brooks County33
Bryan County66
Bulloch County1111
Burke County33
Butts County1 or 21 or 2
Calhoun County1 or 21 or 2
Camden County77
Candler County31 or 2
Carroll County1413
Catoosa County76
Charlton County33
Chatham County3532
Chattahoochee County1 or 21 or 2
Chattooga County33
Cherokee County1915
Clarke County88
Clay County1 or 21 or 2
Clayton County4236
Clinch County1 or 21 or 2
Cobb County6859
Coffee County87
Colquitt County137
Columbia County119
Cook County55
Coweta County1010
Crawford County66
Crisp County76
Dade County54
Dawson County1 or 21 or 2
Decatur County99
DeKalb County8176
Dodge County44
Dooly County55
Dougherty County1514
Douglas County1010
Early County74
Echols County1 or 21 or 2
Effingham County98
Elbert County77
Emanuel County65
Evans County75
Fannin County44
Fayette County77
Floyd County118
Forsyth County99
Franklin County65
Fulton County122118
Gilmer County33
Glascock County1 or 21 or 2
Glynn County1614
Gordon County1813
Grady County33
Greene County33
Gwinnett County5243
Habersham County1411
Hall County1817
Hancock County1 or 21 or 2
Haralson County85
Harris County97
Hart County159
Heard County1 or 21 or 2
Henry County66
Houston County1010
Irwin County31 or 2
Jackson County2018
Jasper County31 or 2
Jeff Davis County55
Jefferson County1211
Jenkins County55
Johnson County44
Jones County55
Lanier County33
Laurens County77
Lee County66
Liberty County129
Lincoln County1 or 21 or 2
Long County1 or 21 or 2
Lowndes County2121
Lumpkin County44
Macon County1 or 21 or 2
Madison County88
Marion County33
McDuffie County44
McIntosh County64
Meriwether County66
Miller County64
Mitchell County1511
Monroe County75
Montgomery County44
Morgan County76
Muscogee County2119
Newton County86
Oconee County86
Oglethorpe County55
Paulding County87
Peach County1 or 21 or 2
Pickens County44
Pierce County55
Pike County55
Polk County1111
Pulaski County43
Putnam County64
Quitman County43
Rabun County33
Randolph County1 or 21 or 2
Richmond County3129
Rockdale County1110
Schley County1 or 21 or 2
Screven County33
Seminole County31 or 2
Spalding County66
Stephens County1 or 21 or 2
Stewart County1 or 21 or 2
Sumter County65
Talbot County66
Taliaferro County1 or 21 or 2
Tattnall County99
Telfair County1 or 21 or 2
Terrell County66
Thomas County85
Tift County65
Toombs County1010
Treutlen County1 or 21 or 2
Troup County2119
Turner County76
Twiggs County65
Union County54
Upson County33
Walker County99
Walton County66
Ware County118
Warren County44
Washington County55
Wayne County55
Webster County1 or 21 or 2
Wheeler County66
White County1 or 21 or 2
Whitfield County1514
Wilcox County55
Wilkes County77
Wilkinson County31 or 2
Worth County1 or 21 or 2

Note: a county with no fatal crash in 1984 is not in the table. A count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2".

Time of day and weekday

Table 3.Georgia: fatal crashes by time of day, 1984
Time of dayFatal crashesShare
Midnight to 6 a.m.27422.0%
6 a.m. to noon20116.1%
Noon to 6 p.m.35628.6%
6 p.m. to midnight41533.3%
Table 4.Georgia: fatal crashes by weekday, 1984
WeekdayFatal crashesShare
Sunday19015.1%
Monday16613.2%
Tuesday1259.9%
Wednesday1179.3%
Thursday14411.4%
Friday22517.9%
Saturday29323.3%

Note: the tables have the fatal crashes with a known hour or weekday.

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Georgia fatal crashes in 1984. https://fatalroads.com/state/georgia/1984/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to .

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Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national file of 1984. This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years. Residents: Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, vintage 2025. Data to .

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

Which file does the 1984 page use?

This site reads the years before 2015 from one fixed copy. It does not track later revisions of these years.

What part of the deaths in the United States in 1984 was in Georgia?

Georgia had 1,410 of the 44,257 deaths in the United States in 1984. That is 3.2 percent.

In how many counties of Georgia did FARS record a fatal crash in 1984?

FARS records one or more fatal crashes in 155 counties of Georgia in 1984.

How many fatal crashes in Georgia in 1984 had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 528 of 1,260 fatal crashes in 1984.